Josh Miller
@joshm • 88,678 subscribers
I help make Arc and Dia at @browsercompany
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The The Browser Company just signed a merger agreement to be acquired. We will remain independent. Our focus is Dia. I’ve written and rewritten this post more times than I’d like to admit, but what I keep coming back to is simple: the work continues, and we’re grateful for this moment. The work continues because when I stop by the coffee shop near our office, nobody is using Dia yet. Our “internet computer” vision hasn’t been realized. Dia hasn’t yet changed how you work on a Tuesday morning. This deal is about giving us the resources, distribution, and monetization muscle to get there. At the same time, it feels disingenuous not to pause and briefly celebrate this milestone. It reflects our team’s craftsmanship and relentlessness, the support of our coaches, board members, and advisors, and the incredible effort from our deal team: Ryan Purcell from Gunderson, Nancy Peretsman and Leah Schwartz from Allen & Co., and Clare, Abby, Eissra, Rebecca, Cory, Nash, and Hursh from The Browser Company. Most of all, we’re grateful for what this means for Dia. It means we can hire faster, ship faster, and bring Dia to more people. We can now invest in cross-platform support and secure syncing, train custom AI models designed specifically for Dia, and turn ambitious ideas about “computer use” and “memory” into reality. To everyone who’s filed a bug, sent feedback, or shared a kind word: thank you. We haven’t always gotten it right, but we’ve always cared deeply. That will never change. Dia isn’t going anywhere. We’ll be here for the long haul, with the same team just a new partner helping us push further. We’ll take a breath this weekend, and then get back to work. Big launch next month. In the meantime...
Josh Miller947,274 views • 9 months ago
Soon your Tabs will feel like Apps in Dia (window tinting is step 1)
Josh Miller282,716 views • 7 months ago
Here's the big idea behind Dia: You know how TikTok gets better with every swipe? Dia gets more personalized with every tab you open. This is 100x more context than ChatGPT, automatically. And we believe it changes what's possible with AI. But we need your help...
Josh Miller451,463 views • 11 months ago
Tomorrow, we’re releasing a small but mighty feature that moves us closer to... A ✨Post-Google✨ Internet Now Arc will automatically suggest ChatGPT — instead of Google — for certain search queries. Why is this such a big deal, and what does it tease about our future?
Josh Miller287,201 views • 2 years ago
Grateful for the outpouring the past few days. I can’t tell you how motivating it is to have people care so much about Arc. The encouragement, the criticism, the confusion. Took it all in <3 As a thank you, I’d like to speak more plainly about what’s happening and why – we owe it to you: 1. Every person who joined or invested in our company did so to build products beloved by hundreds of millions of people. “We want to be to the browser what the iPhone was to the cellphone” has been our rallying cry since Day One. We knew chance of success was low but the ambition made us leap out of bed every morning. 2. Arc is beloved, popular, and growing (4x daily actives YoY). But it’s now clear that what most people love about the product *is also* what will prevent it from reaching hundreds of millions of people in our target demographic (people who spend hours in their browsers each day for their livelihood). Arc is a niche browser, even if we did not intend for it to be so. 3. Luckily, we architected this company – from company name to investors and technical architecture – to support multiple products since Day One. See Arc Search. Our favorite brands have multiple product lines in the same category too (Apple, Nike, Disney). Hence our realization: why keep trying to make Arc something it is not? Nobody who loved Arc wanted Arc Max. Arc members just want it to be more stable, secure, and performant. “Let’s just do that!” 4. With Arc as our beloved but niche browser #1, we asked ourselves a simple question: if we founded the company TODAY (in 2024), with everything that we know, what would the browser of the future look like for hundreds of millions of people? Let’s go build *that* product, alongside Arc. A second browser that is easier to use, more focused, and more powerful. All in order to live up to our founding mission (#1 above). 5. Yet none of this would’ve happened if it weren’t for the timing (market timing is most underrated startup ingredient). Mark my words: the Web is going to dramatically change in 2025 – much more than we all appreciate. Crazy new AI & computer-use models are incoming. I promise you that new browsers will be the story of 2025 (The Browser Company aside). Why? The browser layer is the obvious epicenter of AI & Agents because of its unique context, cookies, & apps. 6. To build a breakthrough consumer product (#1) – like truly breakthrough – you need a catalyzing innovation or technology. AI will be that for the next era of browsers, whether we win or someone else does. So why us (other than Arc is niche)? Our belief is that not only do you need the browser layer to win, but “the hard part” is nailing the interface, the interactions, the storytelling. That’s our bread & butter. That’s the expertise of our team. Now you can see how these puzzle pieces fit together… We built something people love (in Arc) and we intend to stick by it. But we also won’t lose sight of why our team poured so much blood, sweat and tears over the past 4 years into this company: the mission to build a new interface to the internet used by hundreds of millions of people every day. It truly feels like the moment we were waiting for is here and we won’t miss it. Everything we’ve done up until this point was for this type of window, even if we couldn’t have predicted it would play out exactly this way. We’re hopeful that more of you will understand why we’re building this second product soon. I feel confident you will once we can show you more of what we’re dreaming up, and once more of the things we’ve heard and seen in the industry reveal themselves soon. Candidly, we wanted to wait on this announcement but random stuff was leaking and it seemed wrong for you to hear from anyone except us first. We’ve always been at our best when we’re open & honest. We’ll continue to be. Finally, THANK YOU, again, for the love & tough love. We don’t take it for granted. We can’t wait to ship, ship, ship in early 2025!
Josh Miller188,962 views • 1 year ago
Here's a demo of full self-driving for Dia browser, made by nate parrott. You send your (second) cursor off to do work in another tab for you, while you continue on other stuff in parallel. FSD reliability is not good enough for production but we'll get there in 2025.
Josh Miller174,162 views • 1 year ago
we get so distracted online today constantly context switching ------------------------------ The Browser Company's latest is a remedy for the chaos ------------------------ it's an in-app browser for *every website* on the internet --------------- meet "Peek" by Arc :-)
Josh Miller315,182 views • 3 years ago
Windows (for Dia) is way ahead of schedule: from features supported to craft details & visual polish. A fun thing about Season 2 of the The Browser Company is we get to NOT make the same mistakes twice (such as underinvesting in Windows). LIVE DEMO from today:
Josh Miller46,726 views • 4 months ago
Last week, I shared the design thinking behind Dia with our closest friends & family. In the spirit of building in public, sharing the 10 min recording here too. It's a deep cut on Dia's architecture. Dia may look basic, but it’s surprisingly powerful under the hood:
Josh Miller92,111 views • 11 months ago
We quietly shipped a new version of Dia Memory — optimized for browsing and working magically in the background. Most AI apps (like ChatGPT) only know what you explicitly tell them, what you chat about. But now Dia learns more about you and what you’re working on with every new tab you open. Why? If you had the world's smartest coworker *who also knew everything about you* then imagine the futures you could invent and problems you could solve... But instead… Devin Lewtan decided to use Dia Skills × Dia Memory to write a performance review for her boss, Jane Kelly. I know this sounds like a Black Mirror episode. And obviouslythis is just us having fun. But you don’t need to squint to see what’s around the corner. How we use our computers will completely change once you assume your computer knows everything... and can talk back. Now that our upgraded (and automatic) memory system in Dia is live — visit Settings to activate it for yourself — you can start building Skills that use Memory to turn your assistant into a dream coworker. An expert at doing things like writing Performance Reviews for you. It’s all part of our attempt to make Dia the most useful and personal intelligence in your life. And more videos like this are dropping soon from Ben Cunningham, rosey and jlo on our Instagram (Dia on IG).
Josh Miller76,292 views • 9 months ago